Margarita Mamun

Margarita Mamun (Маргарита Мамун; born 1 November 1995) is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast of Bangladeshi-Russian descent.

She competed at the 2005 Miss Valentine Cup in Tartu, Estonia.

She was coached by former rhythmic world champion Amina Zaripova.

She briefly competed for Bangladesh at age 12 but returned to representing Russia as a senior.

Mamun competed at the 2011 International Tournament of Calais, where she won gold in the All-around and in hoop, clubs and ribbon final.

She made her senior international breakthrough at the 2011 World Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she won the bronze medal in all-around and gold in ball finals ahead of Liubov Charkashyna.

In 2012, she competed at the 2012 Moscow Grand Prix, where she finished 9th in all-around.

In the 2012 FIG World Cup series event in Kyiv (Deriugina Cup), Mamun won the bronze medal in hoop, ball and ribbon final.

At the Sofia event of the 2012 World Cup series she won the all-around gold.

She finished 4th in all-around at the Tashkent leg.

She and teammate Daria Dmitrieva then competed at the senior 2012 AEON Cup in Japan and won the team gold medal.

In 2013, Mamun started her season competing at the Moscow Grand Prix winning the gold medal in all-around ahead of silver medalist Sylvia Miteva and teammate Daria Svatkovskaya.

She also won gold in hoop, ball, clubs and bronze in ribbon final.

At the Thiais Grand Prix, Mamun won all the gold medals: All-around, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.

She won the gold medal in All-around and in all apparatus finals at the second World Cup series event held in Lisbon, Portugal.

Mamun competed at the 2013 World Cup event in Sofia, where she won the bronze in all-around behind Bulgarian Sylvia Miteva.

She won gold in ball and silver in ribbon final (tied with Ganna Rizatdinova).

At the Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup, she won another bronze medal in All-around, but won three gold medals in event finals in hoop, ball and ribbon; she won silver in clubs.

Mamun competed at her first Senior Europeans at the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria and together with her teammates (Yana Kudryavtseva and Daria Svatkovskaya ) won Russia the team gold medal.

At the event finals, she won gold in ribbon and three silver medals (ball, hoop and clubs).

She then competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade, where she won gold in All-around ahead of teammate Alexandra Merkulova.

At the event finals, she won gold in hoop, ribbon, clubs and placed 8th in ball.

At the 2013 World Cup series in St.Petersburg, Russia, Mamun won the all-around gold medal and in the event finals, she won gold medal in (hoop, clubs, ribbon) and silver in ball.

Mamun then competed at the 2013 World Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she won gold medal in ball with a score of 18.516 points and shared the gold medal in clubs with teammate Yana Kudryavtseva; she also took bronze medal in hoop and placed 5th in ribbon final.

Mamun finished 6th at the 2013 World Championships All-around final.

She then competed at the 2013 Grand Prix Brno and won the all-around gold ahead of Svatkovskaya, she won another gold in ribbon, ball, silver in hoop and bronze in clubs.

Mamun won the all-around at the 2013 Grand Prix Final in Berlin and gold medal in hoop and ball, silver in clubs behind Daria Svatkovskaya and 5th in ribbon.

On 25–27 October, Mamun competed at the world club championship, the AEON Cup, in Tokyo, Japan representing team Gazprom (together with teammates Yana Kudryavtseva and junior Yulia Bravikova) and won the team gold.

She is the 2016 Olympic All-around champion, two-time (2015, 2014) World All-around silver medalist, the 2015 European Games All-around silver medalist, the 2016 European Championships All-around silver medalist, three-time (2015, 2014, 2013) Grand Prix Final All-around champion and a three-time (2011–2013) Russian National All-around champion.

She is the current record holder under the 20-point judging system with the highest All-around total of 77.150 points; which she scored at the 2016 Baku World Cup.

At the 2016 Olympic Games, Mamun won the All-around gold with a total score of 76.483 points.

Mamun was born in Moscow, Russia to a Bengali father Abdullah Al Mamun, who was born in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and had a master's degree in marine engineering, and a Russian mother Anna, a former rhythmic gymnast.

Mamun holds both Russian and Bangladeshi citizenship, and has one younger brother named Filipp Al Mamun.

On 26 August 2016, Mamun's father, Abdullah, died from cancer at the age of 52, two days after she returned to Russia from Brazil, six days after she won Olympic gold.

Shortly after the 2016 Olympic Games, Mamun became engaged to Olympic swimmer Alexandr Sukhorukov.

The couple had been dating for three years when Sukhorukov proposed to Mamun at the Russian Olympic Ball.

The couple married on 8 September 2017.

On 17 July 2019, Mamun announced that she was pregnant through a post on her Instagram.

On 3 October 2019, she gave birth to their son, Lev Alexandrovich Sukhorukov.

As a junior, Mamun competed in a number of international tournaments.